SensFloor - A Large-area Wireless Sensor System for Ambient Assisted Living (Energy Harvesting and Storage Europe 2011)

Dr. Axel Steinhage is Director R&D at Future-Shape GmbH, Höhenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn, Germany since 2006. From 2001 to 2005 he lead the Man-Machine-Interaction group as a Senior Staff Engineer at the Corporate Research Department of Infineon Technologies AG, Munich. Between

1997 and 2000 he worked as a Postdoc and leader of the Anthropomorphic Robotics Group and the Behavioural Dynamics Group at the Institute for Neuroinformatics in Bochum, Germany and at the CNRS in Marseille, France. In 1997 he received a doctor's degree in theoretical physics. Dr. Steinhage has written over 60 international publications in the research fields of robotics, neurobiology, navigation, dynamical systems, speech recognition, image processing, remote sensing, mobile communication and ambient assisted living.

Future-Shape transforms the vision of Ambient Assisted Living into useful, practicable applications. We regard the development of simple but robust user interfaces for such complex systems to be one of the biggest challenges facing the technology of tomorrow. We specialize in sensor systems which can be seamlessly integrated into large surfaces such as floors, glass panels and walls and so give these surfaces entirely new functions. Future-Shape provides systems which assist people in their everyday lives. These technologies are a platform for new services for building automation, home and professional care, as well as security.